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June 19: Father's Day

Today's 5 Things features five unique sayings about dads gathered by Vernon Patch Local Editor Chris Dehnel.

Weather: It wil be sunny today with a high temperature of 83 °F. The evening will be mostly clear with an overnight low of 55 °F.

nday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 55. North wind between 3 and 6 mph.

1. ''If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a 50  percent chance of being right.'' - Bill Cosby

2. ''My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.'  'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply.  'We're raising boys.'"  - Harmon Killebrew

3. ''I don't care how poor a man is. If he has family, he's rich. - Col. Sherman Potter

4. ''The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.'' - Garrison Keillor

5. ''It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.''  - Pope John XXIII

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Numbers 1 and 2 were found at www.quotegarden.com. Numbers 3 and 4 were found on www.chiff.com. Number 5 was found at www.boardofwisdom.com.


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